Population
12 subjects with severe hypercholesterolemia
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Reduced platelet survival may mark extensive atherosclerosis in older patients; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Marked hypercholesterolemia without atherosclerosis does not accelerate platelet destruction, though it modestly increases aggregability.
Corash et al. (1981) studied this question.
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